8 Easy Steps for Creating a Scarecrow Makeup Look for Halloween

Whether you're going with a group of friends as the characters from "The Wizard of Oz" or just looking for a cute solo costume, this scarecrow makeup is a fun and easy option. The best part? You can create it with makeup you probably already have. Read on for how to do it yourself.

Kathleen Kamphausen

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1. Use an orange liquid lipstick to paint a circle on both your cheeks and a triangle over the tip of your nose. Make the circles just big enough to cover the apples of your cheeks. For the triangle, keep the corners rounded instead of pointed.

3. Enhance your eyes with gold eye shadow. Fill in the center of your eyelids with a creamy eye shadow stick, like the Nudestix Magnetic Eye Color in "Gilt," and use your finger to blend it into the crease of your eye for an easy brightening effect.

6. Outline the triangle on your nose, then draw stitch-like dashes around it. Using a black pencil liner, like e.l.f. Cosmetics Waterproof Gel Eyeliner, to define the triangle. Then, draw perpendicular tic marks about a centimeter long around the border of the triangle shape to create your "patch."

7. Draw black lines with eye liner that extend from your corners of your mouth to the halfway point across your cheeks. Then, draw perpendicular stitch-like dashes across it.

8. Make your face look more doll-like by drawing small white "shine marks" on your cheeks and nose. Using a white pencil, like the NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in "604 Milk," draw small apostrophe shapes on the edge of your shapes.

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